Purity

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Young Goodman Brown” Hawthorne conveys to us a seemingly highly religious Puritan town. However, this town appears to be holding a devious truth. Throughout his work Hawthorne utilizes symbolism to convey the corrupt and evil truth behind the, otherwise highly religious, Puritan town. Throughout his main symbol usage of Faith’s pink ribbons, Faith’s name and appearances throughout the story, and the woods in which the story is mainly told in, we see the…

athletics. Moreover, PED’s have desensitized mankind and have made the impression that knowledge is not important. Based on Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, she believes that PED’s are a monstrosity because they have taken away from the excitement and purity of sports. In other words, PED’s used in sports give the user an advantage without having to work for it which has damaged sports today. In Michael Rosenberg’s, “Performance-Enhancing Drugs Should Not Be Legalized”, he proposes that PED…

The story of Cinderella is well-known by most people, however, there are several versions of this beloved tale. The original story written down by the Grimm Brothers depicts a world where moral choices can affect your life in extreme ways, but it is Walt Disney’s 1950 cartoon version of Cinderella that most children think of when the story is mentioned. This version leaves behind both the question of morality and the bloody punishments, allowing children to enjoy an eye-catching, G-rated film.…

Within "Black Hawk's Surrender Speech, 1832" Hawk uses the rhetorical devices ethos, logos, and pathos to support his claim. Black Hawk claims that "White People" are corrosive and vile. Hawk uses ethos to support his claim by emphasizing the lack of ethics of the "White People". Hawk proclaims, "the white men... carry false looks... they shake them by the hand to gain their confidence, to make them drunk, to deceive them". Hawk depicts how the "White Men" deceit. Through this deceit he…

Jamestown, Virginia. As historian Winthrop Jordan noted, what struck the English most about Africans was their color. In the English mind, the color black was viewed with a variety of negative images. “The color white, on the other hand, signified purity, innocence, and goodness” (Takaki 51-52). Slaves were held in chains, they were frequently beaten and whipped by their captors. The slaves were not treated like human beings, they were treated like animals! Slaves were brought in one at a time…

The red dress in the short story “A Red Dress-1946” by Alice Munro, symbolizes the narrator’s liminal space amidst adulthood and childhood. Her longing to transition forth adulthood is conveyed by the description of the tight red dress’s ability to accentuate her breasts, thus maturing her image. Munro writes, “The red velvet dress…[was] very tight in the midriff. I saw how my breasts, in their new brassiere, jutted out surprisingly, with mature authority.” The narrator’s new dress represents a…

The one thing for certain is this is a tale of binary oppositions, death and life. Life is seen in the defiant Prospero and his guests whom attempt to defy death’s wishes. The concepts of life and death are interrelated and connected in all aspects; it is unfeasible to have one exclusive of the other. The connotations behind these binaries are continuously deferring meaning to one another. Without life there is no death, and without death there is no life. The différance is cyclical in this case…

metaphor in “ One of those bright crockery days”. The use of metaphor is used to represent the aspect of rediscovery as the persona is reminded of his past domestic life when looking out the train window. In addition, there is a comforting freshness and purity in the metaphor describing the morning as it evokes fond memories from the past while the persona returns imaginatively to his formative years on the North coast. The effect of the metaphor is to make the reader connect with the persona…

discrete and can be easily seen on store shelves; there still appears to be a stigma attached to female sexuality that might make it more difficult to openly discuss these topics. The stigma comes from a variety of sources that include ideas of female purity, heteronormativity, and the medicalization of sexuality. Though we don’t see the diagnosis of hysteria anymore I definitely believe that this type of medicalization left a lasting impression on our attitudes regarding women’s sexual…

On the most general level, historical context shapes prejudice through the preserved dominance of the established in-group for centuries. As seen with the Unite the Right Rally, these white nationalists and supremacists are following ideologies of political groups centuries before they were born. Racism and anti-Semitism are not new notions in society. Since the horrific actions of Nazis and the KKK are deeply engrained into America’s history, the pattern of prejudice continues to exist even in…